The Myth of a Stolen Election

By Bob Zelnick. Mr. Zelnick is a professor of journalism at Boston University and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, which will publish his book on the Florida contest next month.

Readers of the New York Times were treated on Sunday to a massive report claiming that hundreds of overseas Florida ballots cast in violation of state law were nonetheless counted by election officials under pressure from representatives of George W. Bush. While even the Times stops short of claiming that inclusion of the...